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<h3 class="heading3">Simplifying Setup of User Accounts</h3>
<p class="bodytext">If you are going to serve numerous users, you may want to create account configuration presets, referred to as client templates, that will simplify setting up user accounts for new customers. The templates cover all resource usage allotments, permissions and limits that you can define for a user account.</p>
<p class="procedureheading">To create a client template:</p>
<ol class="procedurelistnumber"><li class="procedurelistnumber">Click the <strong class="specialbold">Clients</strong> shortcut in the navigation pane.</li><li class="procedurelistnumber">Click the <strong class="specialbold">Client Templates</strong> icon in the <strong class="specialbold">Tools</strong> group.</li><li class="procedurelistnumber">Click <strong class="specialbold">Add New Client Template</strong>.</li><li class="procedurelistnumber">Specify the template properties:<ul class="listbullet2"><li class="listbullet2"><strong class="specialbold">Template name</strong>. Specify a name for this template. During setup of a new user account, you will be prompted to select the required template by its name. Therefore, we recommend that you choose a meaningful name that corresponds to one of your hosting plans or describes the amount of allotted resources. For example, <strong class="specialbold">Reseller account, 5GB disk space, 100 domains</strong>.</li><li class="listbullet2"><strong class="specialbold">Access to control panel</strong>. Specify whether the customer will be able to access the control panel for managing his or her account and sites.</li><li class="listbullet2"><strong class="specialbold">Domain creation</strong>. Specify whether the customer will be able to set up hosting accounts for new sites.</li><li class="listbullet2"><strong class="specialbold">Physical hosting management</strong>. Specify whether the customer will be able to set up hosting accounts, modify hosting account features and switch on or off support for programming and scripting languages.</li><li class="listbullet2"><strong class="specialbold">Hosting performance management</strong>. Specify whether the customer will be able to limit bandwidth usage and number of connections to his or her Web sites.</li><li class="listbullet2"><strong class="specialbold">PHP safe mode management</strong>. Specify whether the customer will be able to switch the PHP safe mode off for his or her sites. By default, PHP is configured to operate in safe mode with functional restrictions. To learn more about PHP safe mode, refer to  <a class="externalhyperlinktemplate" title="" href="http://php.net/features.safe-mode" target="_blank">http://php.net/features.safe-mode</a>. Some web applications may not work properly with safe mode enabled: If an application on a site  fails due to safe mode, switch the safe mode off by clearing the <strong class="specialbold">PHP 'safe_mode' on </strong>check box in the hosting account properties (<strong class="specialbold">Domains</strong> &gt; <strong class="specialbold">domain name</strong> &gt; <strong class="specialbold">Setup</strong> icon in the <strong class="specialbold">Hosting</strong> group).</li><li class="listbullet2"><strong class="specialbold">Management of shell access to server</strong>. Specify whether the customer will be able to access the server shell through Secure Shell protocol and allow his or her own customers to do so.</li><li class="listbullet2"><strong class="specialbold">Hard disk quota assignment</strong>. Specify whether the customer will be able to assign hard quotas on disk space for his or her own web sites and for web sites of his or her customers.</li><li class="listbullet2"><strong class="specialbold">Subdomains management</strong>. Specify whether the customer will be able to set up additional sites under his or her domains and allow his or her customers to do so.</li><li class="listbullet2"><strong class="specialbold">Domain aliases management</strong>. Specify whether the customer will be able to set up additional alternative domain names for his or her web sites and allow his or her users to do so.</li><li class="listbullet2"><strong class="specialbold">Log rotation management</strong>. Specify whether the customer will be able to adjust the cleanup and recycling of processed log files for his or her sites.</li><li class="listbullet2"><strong class="specialbold">Anonymous FTP management</strong>. Specify whether the customer will be able to have an FTP directory where all users could download and upload files without the need to enter login and  password. A web site should reside on a dedicated IP address in order to use anonymous FTP service.</li><li class="listbullet2"><strong class="specialbold">Task scheduling</strong>. Specify whether the customer will be able to schedule tasks in the system. Scheduled tasks can be used for running scripts or utilities on schedule.</li><li class="listbullet2"><strong class="specialbold">Domain limits adjustment</strong>. Specify whether the customer will be able to adjust resource allotments for his or her account. </li><li class="listbullet2"><strong class="specialbold">DNS zone management</strong>. Specify whether the customer will be able to manage the DNS zones of his or her domains.</li><li class="listbullet2"><strong class="specialbold">Java applications management</strong>. Specify whether the customer will be able to install Java applications and applets on web sites through the control panel.</li><li class="listbullet2"><strong class="specialbold">Mailing lists management.</strong> Specify whether the customer will be able to use mailing lists provided by the GNU Mailman software.</li><li class="listbullet2"><strong class="specialbold">Spam filter management</strong>. Specify whether the customer will be able to use SpamAssassin spam filter and customize filtering settings.</li><li class="listbullet2"><strong class="specialbold">Antivirus management</strong>. Specify whether the customer will be able to use server-side antivirus protection for filtering incoming and outgoing mail.</li><li class="listbullet2"><strong class="specialbold">Backup and restore functions</strong>. Specify whether the customer will be able to use the control panel's facilities to back up and restore his or her sites. To allow storing backup files on the server, select the <strong class="specialbold">local repository</strong> check box. To allow the customer to use an arbitrary FTP server for storing backups, select the <strong class="specialbold">remote (FTP) repository</strong> check box.</li><li class="listbullet2"><strong class="specialbold">User interface</strong>. Specify the type of user interface the customer will be able to use - standard, desktop, or both.</li><li class="listbullet2"><strong class="specialbold">Desktop management</strong>. Specify whether the customer will be able to customize his or her desktop interface.</li><li class="listbullet2"><strong class="specialbold">Ability to use remote XML interface</strong>. Specify whether the customer will be able to remotely manage his or her Web sites through custom applications. The XML interface can be used for developing custom applications integrated with Web sites, which could be used, for instance, for automating setup of hosting accounts and provisioning of services for customers purchasing hosting services from your reseller's site. To learn more about using Plesk control panel's XML interface (also referred to as Plesk API RPC), please visit <a class="externalhyperlinktemplate" title="" href="http://download1.parallels.com/Plesk/Plesk8.1/Doc/plesk-8.1-api-rpc/index.htm" target="_blank">http://download1.parallels.com/Plesk/Plesk8.1/Doc/plesk-8.1-api-rpc/index.htm</a>.</li><li class="listbullet2"><strong class="specialbold">Ability to select a database server</strong>. Specify whether the customer will be able to select a database server of each type for creating his or her databases, not only use the default database server.</li><li class="listbullet2"><strong class="specialbold">Maximum number of domains</strong>. Specify the total number of domain names/web sites your customer will be able to host on the server. This includes web sites hosted on this server, and domain forwarders that point to web sites hosted on other servers. Domain aliases (additional domain names for a site hosted on this server) and subdomains are counted separately and are not limited by this resource type.</li><li class="listbullet2"><strong class="specialbold">Maximum number of subdomains</strong>. Specify the total number of subdomains that the customer will be able to host.</li><li class="listbullet2"><strong class="specialbold">Maximum number of domain aliases</strong>. Specify the total number of additional alternative domain names that the customer will be able to use for his or her web sites.</li><li class="listbullet2"><strong class="specialbold">Disk space</strong>. Specify the total amount of disk space in megabytes that is allocated to the customer. It includes disk space occupied by all files related to user's domains/web sites: web site contents, databases, applications, mailboxes, log files and backup files. This is the so-called soft quota: when it is exceeded, the user account and domain names/web sites are not suspended automatically, only the appropriate notices are sent to your and your customer's e-mail addresses and the resource overage is indicated by the icon <img src="17553.gif" alt="" height="16" width="16" vspace="0" hspace="0" align="bottom" border="0"> shown in your and your customer's control panels to the left of the user name (see the list of clients that opens when you click the <strong class="specialbold">Clients</strong> shortcut in the navigation pane) or domain name (see the list of domain names that opens when you click the <strong class="specialbold">Domains</strong> shortcut in the navigation pane).</li><li class="listbullet2"><strong class="specialbold">Maximum amount of traffic</strong>. Specify the amount of data in megabytes that can be transferred from the customer's web sites during a month. Once the limit is reached, the appropriate notices are sent to your and your customer's e-mail addresses and the resource overage is indicated by the corresponding icon <img src="17553.gif" alt="" height="16" width="16" vspace="0" hspace="0" align="bottom" border="0"> shown in the control panel to the left of the user name (see the list of clients that opens when you click the <strong class="specialbold">Clients</strong> shortcut in the navigation pane) or domain name (see the list of domain names that opens when you click the <strong class="specialbold">Domains</strong> shortcut in the navigation pane).</li><li class="listbullet2"><strong class="specialbold">Maximum number of web users</strong>. Specify the total number of personal web pages that your customer can host for other users under his or her domains. This service is mostly used in educational institutions that host non-commercial personal pages of their students and staff. These pages usually have web addresses like http://your-domain.com/~username. See the <a id="h17708" class="jumptemplate" title="Hosting Personal Web Pages on Your Web Server" href="17313.htm" target="_self">Hosting Personal Web Pages</a> section for details.</li><li class="listbullet2"><strong class="specialbold">Maximum number of databases</strong>. Specify the total number of databases that the customer can host on the server.</li><li class="listbullet2"><strong class="specialbold">Maximum number of mailboxes</strong>. Specify the total number of mailboxes that the customer can host on the server.</li><li class="listbullet2"><strong class="specialbold">Mailbox quota</strong>. Specify the amount of disk space in kilobytes that is allocated for storing e-mail messages and autoresponder attachment files to each mailbox in a domain.</li><li class="listbullet2"><strong class="specialbold">Maximum number of mail forwarders</strong>. Specify the total number of mail forwarders that the customer can set up.</li><li class="listbullet2"><strong class="specialbold">Maximum number of mail autoresponders</strong>. Specify the total number of automatic responses that the customer can set up.</li><li class="listbullet2"><strong class="specialbold">Maximum number of mailing lists</strong>. Specify the total number of mailing lists that you customer can host on the server.  To provide users with mailing lists, you should install the GNU Mailman software.</li><li class="listbullet2"><strong class="specialbold">Maximum number of Java applications</strong>. Specify the total number of Java applications or applets that can be hosted on the server.</li><li class="listbullet2"><strong class="specialbold">Validity period</strong>. Specify the term for a hosting account. At the end of the term, all customer's domains/web sites will be suspended, its Web, FTP and mail services will no longer be accessible to the Internet users, and the reseller and his or her customers (domain owners) will not be able to log in to the control panel. Accounts cannot be automatically renewed, therefore, in order to bring the hosted domain names/web sites back to operation, you will need to manually renew the user account: Click the <strong class="specialbold">Clients</strong> shortcut in the navigation pane, click the client name you need, click the <strong class="specialbold">Limits</strong> icon, specify another term in the <strong class="specialbold">Validity period</strong> box, click <strong class="specialbold">OK</strong>, then click the <strong class="specialbold">Switch On </strong>icon in the <strong class="specialbold">Tools</strong> group (<strong class="specialbold">Clients</strong> <strong class="specialbold">&gt; client name</strong>).</li><li class="listbullet2"><strong class="specialbold">IP address allocation.</strong> Specify the shared IP addresses that you wish to allocate to the customer. If you wish to automatically provision dedicated IP addresses, select the <strong class="specialbold">Allocate exclusive IP addresses to client</strong> check box and specify the number of IP addresses that should be taken from your IP range and assigned to the customer.</li><li class="listbullet2"><strong class="specialbold">Creation of a user account in Sitebuilder.</strong> To allow the customer to create and manage Web sites using Sitebuilder, select the <strong class="specialbold">Create a corresponding user account in Sitebuilder</strong> check box.</li></ul></li><li class="procedurelistnumber">Click <strong class="specialbold">OK</strong> to complete creation of a template. <p class="listcontinue">During setup of a new user account, you will select the required template and the account will be created and allocated the resources you defined.</p>
</li></ol><p class="procedureheading">To modify a template:</p>
<ol class="procedurelistnumber"><li class="procedurelistnumber">Click the <strong class="specialbold">Clients</strong> shortcut in the navigation pane.</li><li class="procedurelistnumber">Click the <strong class="specialbold">Client Templates</strong> icon in the <strong class="specialbold">Tools</strong> group.</li><li class="procedurelistnumber">Click the template name you need.</li><li class="procedurelistnumber">Modify the settings as required and click <strong class="specialbold">OK</strong>. <p class="listcontinue">Note that modifying templates does not affect the existing user accounts that were created by these templates.</p>
</li></ol><p class="procedureheading">To remove a template that you no longer need:</p>
<ol class="procedurelistnumber"><li class="procedurelistnumber">Click the <strong class="specialbold">Clients</strong> shortcut in the navigation pane.</li><li class="procedurelistnumber">Click the <strong class="specialbold">Client Templates</strong> icon in the <strong class="specialbold">Tools</strong> group.</li><li class="procedurelistnumber">Select a check box corresponding to the template you no longer need.</li><li class="procedurelistnumber">Click <img src="17026.gif" alt="" height="16" width="16" vspace="0" hspace="0" align="bottom" border="0"> <strong class="specialbold">Remove Selected</strong>. Confirm removal and click <strong class="specialbold">OK</strong>.</li></ol>


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